With complete the major interior renovation and decoration of a four-bedroom Sydney home in just three months, Dylan Farrell Design tackled the project by developing improvised aesthetics alongside curious clients.

Although boldly accented, the burnished, polished concrete floors and polished plaster walls allude to an underlying simplicity in the structure of the house.The removal of superfluous walls, joinery, and structures throughout the home simplified the spaces and broadened perspectives. A major change was to the main bedroom suite. The east-facing windows that access views of the water had previously been interrupted by a series of walls and joinery – with these windows now cleared, the space becomes more open and takes full advantage of the view.

Given the compressed schedule, only the concrete floors were refinished from the existing structure. Personality was instead derived from quirky shapes, colours and proportions selected in close collaboration with the clients, with elements such as expressive stone giving personality to the previously banal space.

Burnished, polished concrete floors sidle up neatly against the wildly-applied polished plaster walls, whilst hand-hewn brass surfaces accentuate the unusual stones utilised throughout. The furniture and fittings were mostly designed in-house, with items purchased only if they possessed a sense of lyricism or audaciousness. A number of Dylan Farrell pieces throughout the house represent the connection the designer and client, with the Wonderland Wall Sculpture at the entry a first-edition piece.